She came in through the bathroom window. by Sam M. '07
The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.
…but she won’t have to do that anymore, now she can just go in the Infinite like the rest of campus.
It’s a historic summer at MIT, for facilities has finally decided to recognize the Institute’s gender balance with a construction project in the Infinite Corridor. Formerly the world’s longest single hallway, the Infinite (actually only about 825 feet long) spans buildings 7, 3, 10, 4, and 8 and features the “little dome” (over Lobby 7), the Student Services Center (11-120), the admissions office (10-100), the Building 4 Cafe (4-100) and the brand-new Nanomechanical Technology Laboratory (8-110). You can also find three men’s restrooms (8-113, 4-101, 7-107) and one women’s restroom (3-101).
But that’s about to change.
And in the meantime, they have this sign up.
Can you imagine what I looked like taking a picture of a bathroom door at 1:30 in the afternoon in the busiest hallway on campus? No, really, just think about it for a sec. “Uh, sorry, I just really like this door… and need a picture of it. Right now. Go ahead by!” I did receive applause from two self-identified “women engineers,” who agreed that the sex change operation had been a long time coming.
I hear that the interior of the new bathroom will be designed by Frank “The Stata Center” O. Gehry and that all the toilets will be molded in non-Euclidean geometries and suspended from the ceiling by titanium wires.
Just playin’.
hey sam, it’s nghi.
hope you’re having an awesome summer.
so you got a blog =)
a new medium for your stalkers to indulge themselves?
OMG! That’s my favorite Beatles song. Maybe not my favorite, but the only one that addresses the well-traveled fire escape that has a stop at the bathroom window of my suite.
What do I win? (Don’t say “you get to be my favorite advisee”)
I was one of the first girls to attend a traditionally all-male college in 1970. The lack of female bathrooms were a big issue. One of the dorm’s bathrooms was converted for girls by simply putting pots of plastic flowers in the urinals.
Hopefully, gravity will stop to function. I’ll tell you about it in the fall, since you can’t go inside and verify for yourself.